Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 16, 1997
November 15, 1997
November 17, 1997
Transcript:
Sam: Daddy, what's a statement? B.D.: A statement? Sam: A man on TV said your team made a statement yesterday. B.D.: Oh, that just means we won when we weren't expected to. So far this season we've made four statements. Sam: What's it called if you lose? B.D.: It's called raising a lot of questions. Sam: About what? B.D.: About whether you have the character to make a statement. Sam: Character? What's character? B.D.: Character's the ability to answer questions late in the game. Sam: What if there are questions about the statement? B.D.: That's called at tie.
I see your American Football, and raise you cricket. You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game